Re: [APML] Fw: images

[Chris Schur <comets133@yahoo.com>]

Tony, with your guidence it looks like that transion
wont be as painful after all.  Thanks.

Chris

--- Tony Hallas <tonyhallas@foothill.net> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
>     I'm going to address this to you and all the
> other APML'ers ... it
> doesn't have to be a "tough transition" ... if you
> are refering to the new
> knowledge that you will need to do CCD, I can tell
> you that it's not that
> big a deal ... you already know at least 50% more
> than a  totally raw newbie
> starting out in CCD would know ... you have done
> film. You already know
> about histograms and PS and clipping and composition
> and S/N issues ...
> 
>      Chris you and I go back a long, long ways ... I
> am not going to stop
> using film ... I would love to get some great E 200
> Milky Way shots this
> summer ...  going CCD is not as big a deal as most
> people think ...  once
> you get that first taste of what it can do, believe
> me, there's no going
> back. It will take you places you have never been
> before, see things that
> you have never seen before ... it's exciting.
> 
>      In fact, it takes a FILM person to trully
> appreciate what a CCD can do
> .... downloading 16 bit data right out of the sky is
> more meaningful to a
> film person than to any CCD newbie ... what do they
> know about being stuck
> in an 8 bit world?
> 
>      I don't know what it is that makes the unknown
> always seem magnified
> .... but fear and apprehension have no place in this
> transition ... rather I
> would hope for fascination, excitement, and
> enthousiasm.
> 
>      Peace, bro ...
> 
>           Tony
> 
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